The Blind Trojan Horse
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ShadowHaven Adeptus | Shedim | ||||||||
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Delphi Ez-Azael Mojo Joe Ice | Saul | ||||||||
Summary
Runners are hired to discreetly spy on a child. It goes badly and it's discovered that the boy is an amnesiac shedim possessing its victim.
Background
See The Pride Of Kevin Crimes, The Slippery Bastard and Average Ohio Road Trip.
The Meet
A call for runners is made to look into a middle-class woman's son. She's a single mother, Veronica Amundi. Her only son, Saul Amundi, has acted strange, skipped school and more or less ruined his cherished opportunity to become a corporate SINner with a good job and good wage. She is afraid of her corporate status being risked if she hires official channels and wants to keep her son's situation quiet.
The Plan
Legwork begins by coercing Saul, going by the name of Cain online, to actually cooperate. Magical uniqueness and eccentricities seem to get him interested and he's almost compulsively curious about various astral horror stories and urban legends. His search for more knowledge can be deemed almost reckless. Veronica notes that he's been mildly allergic to sunlight for his entire life and that he used to have a violent childhood, lashing out at everything until he turned four and she finally managed to teach him manners. Saul appears interested in a Matrix forum/imageboard that discusses various supernatural conspiracy theories, one of them being the tinfoil hat theory of the Delayed Armageddon; it's often spouted by conservative Christian hard-liners: Dunkelzahn delayed Armageddon as ordained by God and as a result committed a great blasphemy which is to blame for the evils plagueing the world now. Angels have begun walking among mortals and preparing the planet for the proper Armageddon so that it can't be stopped a second time.
Saul even finds a few potential people that may have become 'vessels for angels' as he puts it: Don Aycker and Jeice Brown. Aycker was already seen by Mojo Joe before during his run in an Ares Facility (see Among Us) and Jeice Brown was certainly destroyed as a shedim host in Ohio. Later, Aycker was also found as a shedim host in Seattle and destroyed. Saul is determined to keep looking, having found forbidden lore in a book that the forum sometimes offers people bold enough to read it. It has notoriety in that most who read it go missing within twelve months with the exception of Saul who's stayed active on the imageboard for three years. The runners outsource Ice and Delphi for additional aid and the Matrix support tracks the forum's archives to be on the MCT grid.